This 2.5 hour workshop was offered at Whistler BC in affiliation with BC PITA and BCSSTA

1. @amyburvall
Image is Everything:
Visual Thinking Across the Curriculum
#WhistlerPSA17
http://bit.ly/burvallwhistler

2. http://bit.ly/imagED
VISUAL THINKING
https://flipgrid.com/vizthink

3. community
Research
Resources
Cool Peeps
Iconography
Metaphor
Shortology
Data Viz
Graphic Design
Sketchnotes
Photography
Video
Branding
Activities

4. WIN! FLIPGRID
https://flipgrid.com/vizthink
upload video blogs
share on SM
WIN! one of 10
subscriptions if
you tweet work with
@flipgrid and
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5. Introductions
https://flipgrid.com/e10d51
life in 3 emoji
CSI (colour / symbol/image
of you
3 of me (where I’ve been/
where I am/ where I’m headed
how am I? sketch

8. “Historyteachers” YouTube

9. workshop trailer

10. THE

11. dual coding
and
picture superiority
effect
Allan Paivio

12. caves at Chauvet
32-30,000 BP

13. Gutenberg Parenthesis
return to more
visual/ oral

14. Tyranny of…

15. Scholars will be instructed through the eye.
It is possible to teach every branch of
human knowledge with the motion picture.
Our school system will be completely changed
inside of ten years
- Thomas Edison

16. we talk in pictures

17. Snap-enger Hunt with SnapChat
(photos now used for talking)

18. disclaimer:
don’t stress out
about your artistic
abilities…
this is about
thinking

19. Challenge: draw your favorite activity

20. Now draw the same thing again…

21. Which was better?

22. Don’t THINK about making ART -
just get it DONE.
Let everyone else decide
if it’s GOOD or bad…
…while they are deciding,
make even MORE ART.
Andy Warhol

24. “Unflattening” - PhD as graphic novel @Nsousanis

25. External memory aids

26. Are YOU a Visual Thinker?

27. “If only we could pull out
our brain
and use only our eyes.”
― Pablo Picasso

28. confidence
problem-solving
focus
perseverance
collaboration
What we learn from the ARTS
(besides Creativity)

29. “Why Doodlers are the New ‘Now’”

30. golf course
architect
I met on the plane
vision / prototype

31. important in cross-cultural groups,
for whom visual sketches can
bridge gaps of understanding

32. Images existed before words,
and they do convey
a sense of universality
- artist Jean Julien

33. Power of the
VISUAL

34. Power of the
VISUAL

35. media literacy
and
digital fluency

36. metaphorical
thinking
+
iconography

37. use metaphorical and visual thinking to
express complex and abstract ideas

40. Find a metaphor
for LEARNING
on your camera roll
IMAGIPHOR
https://flipgrid.com/1bc218
Think Pair Share

42. THE

43. first symbols man created

45. Ads are the cave art
of the twentieth century
― Marshall McLuhan

46. what did you
think of first?

47. The Dot and the Line, 1963

48. Making CONNECTIONS:
Metaphorical Thinking

49. metaphorical
thinking

50. Kennings
hyphenated compound metaphor
Anglo-Saxon and Norse literature
“northern kiss”= cold wind
“whale-road” = the ocean
“sky-candle”= sun

52. analogies game
word bank of nouns
seek connections (use like and as)
visualize
horse wind

53. mood board: Padlet via @wickedDecent
historical events, novels (this is Of Mice and Men)

54. Metaphor is about
association +
relationship
“EYE-DEAS”

55. Metaphor is about
association +
relationship
“EYE-CANDY”

56. Metaphor is about
association +
relationship
making ideas “grow” better

57. Metaphor is about
association +
relationship

58. visual metaphor
for
“eating disorder”

59. Metaphorical Iconography

60. 3 photos
Use the + and = sign to illustrate the synthesis

61. feline devastation
starlight fir
@serendipidoodle

62. Serendipidoodle
flipgrid.com/639bd7
bit.ly/serendipidoodlizer
Use the given prompt slips
or
try to be metaphorical

66. Pictographs / Isotypes (1930s)

68. The Noun Project

69. symbolic Beatles’ songs

70. collaborative creativity: #remash

71. student logo contest: “What If?”

73. Symbol
Redesign

74. student
symbol
re-design
via Rhitt Growl

75. remix logo

76. Crowdsourced
Visual Vocab
create dictionary
of iconography

77. Crowdsourced
Visual Icon
Dictionary
- education
- idea
- technology
- information
- conflict
- love
- time
- change
- student
- government
- learning
- imagine
- travel
- question
- research/
curation
- quote
- food
- success
- earth/world/
global
- school
- team/group
- camera
- smartphone
- problem
- think
- imagine
- writing
- drawing
flipgrid.com/61a2f7

80. Essentializing
and
“Shortology”

81. David Ogilvy
big ideas usually come
as simple ideas
create a children’s book
explain in 3 image panel

82. Picasso’s Exercise: used at Apple

84. 4 icon challenge

86. Visualize a Series
in a Theme
(Values)

87. Theme: “Power of Books”

88. condensed shakespeare, mya gosling

90. MINIMALIST MOVIE POSTERS
POEMS NOVELS HISTORICAL EVENTS

91. synthesis: emoji story
Emojiliterate?

92. Emoji Exit Ticket
Affective Data
how did I feel about my work or my learning?

93. affective data

94. Curation +
Presentation Idea:

95. images - no bullets
open-ended question
to lead class in
discussion

100. minimalist posters of a concept

101. minimalist posters
of a concept

102. Mondrian-esque
Metaphor

103. Illustrate a concept/idea
from your curriculum
MONDRIAN-IFY use simple geometric shapes
and/or basic colors
for symbolism
https://flipgrid.com/74443b

106. Infographics
and DataViz

107. INSIGHT

109. How much coffee do you need?
-Gwen Burvall, 10

110. listicle
(Thinglink or info.gram)

111. use real life items or people
length of hair= frequency of addiction

112. use real life items or people
photorealism

113. photo essay style

114. Visualize…
What’s in your head?
#ds106 challenge
*great for reflection

116. word cloud art

117. Remix: Infographic
from this ^ to this >

118. infographic remix
find an original
and make it better
more clear, fun,
aesthetic
metaphorical, etc.

120. DIY
with data set

121. Creation
Creator
Motivation
Pos/Neg Effects
relations between
people and ideas

122. re.vu
infographic CV

123. Thinglink : Metadata Me

124. from Ikea’s Swedish cookbook
Blowout

125. flow chart a song
(or poem,
or speech)

126. 3 dimensional visualization of:
vocab word
math problem
event in history
process in science
movement in political science
Make it Tangible

127. Sean Ziebarth

128. @abstractsunday on Instagram
Visualize with LEGO

129. BURNING HOUSE
if you had to
take only
10 things…

130. BURNING HOUSE
nothing material
is that important

131. put it on a tee!

132. Ironic Tee Shirt

133. make it an ironic tee!

135. draw a t-shirt shape
think of concepts, vocabulary
+ people in your discipline
try to make a pun
/ play on words / portmanteau
illustrate as appropriate
(the image can be
the funny part too)
Ironic T-Shirt
flipgrid.com/f7dc4e

137. picture VENNs

138. humourous venn

139. #mentalhealthawareness

141. @austinkleon
Dichotomies
works great
with Twitter polls!

143. Dichotomy Series : male/ female

144. http://2kindsofpeople.tumblr.com/

145. http://2kindsofpeople.tumblr.com/

146. http://2kindsofpeople.tumblr.com/

147. dichotomies

148. dichotomies

149. Split Screen: “Go Up”, Cassius

150. Split Screen: “Go Up”, Cassius

151. Split Screen: “Go Up”, Cassius

152. Split Screen: “Go Up”, Cassius

153. #oldandnew

154. Dichotomy
OR
Humourous Venn
https://flipgrid.com/2ee88f
Illustrate a dichotomy
(try to let the image
do most of the talking
but you can contextualize
with words)
OR
Create a humourous
Venn diagram
with images and labels

156. http://webylife.com/
Graphic Design
and
Typography

157. metaphorical
typography
“where art meets type”

158. playing with type

159. Stefan Sagmeister, metaphorical typographer

162. #bowie #literalalphabet

163. #literalalphabet
Bow-e
J-walk
M-bark
Y-knot

164. #sketchquote
#threethirtysketchquote #birthdaysketchquote
take a break…and make!

166. #hashtaggerie

167.
Metaphorical
Typography
the lettering matches
the mood or subject
the word is describing
Try with your name,
city, or #oneword
to describe your day
https://flipgrid.com/24dddf

170. Visual Note-taking: some basics

171. Sketchnote Scribes G+
(linked on the side menu)

172. you begin to see things
you never noticed
before.…
you get closer
to the artist’s secret
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

173. visible thinking:
marginalia

174. networked reading @MrZiebarth

175. develop your
own vocabulary
@TracyClark08

176. Crowdsourced Sketchnotes of Encouragement
@ktenkely

177. #Gridsgestures

178. Lynda Barry’s notebook grid

179. develop your
own
“visual voice”
sketchnotes by @MrZiebarth
using Paper 53 Think Kit

180. Photography

181. photo analysis
Manchester, UK 2017
What is included in the frame of the photo and why do you
think the photographer made that decision?

182. photo analysis
Manchester, UK 2017
Who are the main characters of the photograph and what
can you tell about them from the image?

183. photo analysis
Manchester, UK 2017
What is the theme or emotion conveyed?
How is contrast and lighting used to portray a certain feeling?

184. photo analysis
Manchester, UK 2017
What is the theme or emotion conveyed?
How is contrast and lighting used to portray a certain feeling?

185. photo analysis
Manchester, UK 2017
How is perspective (such as camera angle, vantage point, focus
used to emphasize or de-emphasize certain parts of the
photograph?

186. photo analysis
Manchester, UK 2017
caption the photograph or provide a hashtag
write what you think happened just before and just after

187. a camera
teaches you to
SEE
without a camera
photo safaris

188. stuff your eyes with wonder
Ray Bradbury

189. Find Whimsy in the World

190. weekly photo challenge

191. low barrier entry points: photo-a-day

192. Photo Challenge Calendar
with partners from your discipline, plan 1 month of photo
challenges (shoot for 30 ideas)
*try the silent brainstorm then converge
Challenges should relate to some aspect of your curriculum
Challenges should be technically easy (low barrier) but
mentally stimulating, reinforcing the concept
https://flipgrid.com/e7e511

193.
Photo Challenge
Calendar
with partners from your discipline,
plan 1 month of photo challenges
(shoot for 30 ideas)
*try silent brainstorm then converge
Challenges should relate to
some aspect of your curriculum
Challenges should be
technically easy (low barrier)
but mentally stimulating,
reinforcing the concept
https://flipgrid.com/e7e511

195. my”mistakes”

196. “Ocean Pollution”
power of a simple image

197. Paper by Fifty-Three

199. REMIX: draw over existing landscape
Paper 53 app

200. draw over photos
(even over
tweets)
Paper 53 for iPhone

201. Pareidolia
REMIX: draw over
existing landscape
Paper 53 app

202. Pareidolia
use existing
found objects

204. Re-contextualize Artwork
Museum Remix
Paper 53 app

205. interactive
field trip?

207.
Pareidolia
Use the mundane things around you
(or items in your bag)
to create a whimsical illustration
Seek patterns and
make something out of nothing
(a common one is to "see a face"
in an inanimate thing)
Feel free to use paper and
markers to enhance the illusionhttps://flipgrid.com/18e0dd

210. Re-contextualize Artwork
COLLAGE
Enlight App

211. COLLAGE
#BardART
Re-contextualize Artwork

212. Bardot mashed with Wyeth

213. Bardot
meets
Monet

214. Enlight App
COLLAGE
make a
statement

217. #walldolls

218. mashup /
juxtaposition
for new meaning
COLLAGE
Enlight App

219. surrealism
new context
COLLAGE
Enlight App

220. COLLAGE
surrealism
new context
Enlight App

221. COLLAGE
“escape in a book” poster

222. COLLAGE
remix a
quote
Enlight App

223. unsplash.com
10 free hi-res photos
every 10 days

224. cinemagraphs
(mood? process?)

225. low barrier
of entry points

226. Time?

227. 1.draw something
2.drop photo in Google Image
search
3.draw the image that comes up
4.repeat
Google Drawing Game
https://flipgrid.com/c35ba9

228. environment: graffiti wall

229. thoughtfully consider
every space
as creative space

230. The Studio
Production

231. The Studio
Production

232. favourite apps

233. Paper by 53
PicMonkey
Unsplash.com
Squigglish
MegaPhoto
Enlight
WordFoto
Over
Splice

234. NOIR

235. Enlighten App

236. Megaphoto

237. ImgFlip
and
Splice

238. Squigglish

239. Big Lens

240. PicPlayPost app
Process Product Reflection

241. Creative Speedsketching
Video:
Digital and Hybrid

243. the power of the cut

244. When people ask me
if I went to film school
I tell them, ‘No, I went to films’
Quentin Tarantino

245. VlogMash: What’s in a Word?

246.
Plan a Vlogmash
or
FlipGrid
with partners from your discipline
or alone
what question could you pose
for students to answer
and create a “vlog mash”?
think deep, open-ended
provocations,
but ones that
require short, poignant responses
https://flipgrid.com/ee0ee5

248. appsmashing

249. DESIGN
DUPLICATE
ADD TO
DUPLICATE
ADD TO…
STOP MOTION

250. STOP MOTION

252. Stop-Motion Meitosis
(Cristine Veresan’s 7th gr)

253. PAPER 53
APPLE KEYNOTE
MAGIC MOVE

254. PAPER 53
REFLECTOR APP
iMOVE

255. Make something
GOOD
every day

256. mindfulness
being “present”

257. @michelrijk
Try a one-line
drawing

258.
Partner Portrait
in 1 Line
Practice mindfulness
by attempting to draw with
one continuous line
Try drawing your friend's portrait
this way
Perhaps add a little message
of encouragement
and give them the portrait as a gift
https://flipgrid.com/d112ea

261. your big takeaway
a question
your personal
challenge
https://flipgrid.com/152be8

263. @amyburvall
(on all social media)